Fredrika, Sweden

Fredrika ( Sami: Vistege ) is a place ( tätort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County and the extreme southeast of the historic province of Lapland.

Location

Fredrika belongs to the municipality Åsele. The village is located about 100 km as the crow west-northwest of Umeå and well 50 km east of the main town of the municipality, Åsele am See Vikasjön. Fredrika is after Åsele the second largest and one of the two Tätorte the community.

By Fredrika from Vännäs coming to Umeå National Highway 92 continues over Åsele by Dorotea on Inlandsvägen E 45th Fredrika In the coming from the south of Örnsköldsvik provincial road 352 opens a.

History

Situated in a mid -18th century by Sweden populated area place was first called Viska, from Sami visteke for one, rich in reindeer place '. In 1799 he received its present name after Friederike Dorothea of ​​Baden, as Fredrika Dorotea Vilhelmina wife of Gustav IV Adolf and 1797-1809 Queen of Sweden. In honor of the fantastic Towns Dorotea and Vilhelmina were named.

The population of the town has, roughly halved since the mid- 1960s, when a high of about 500 was reached.

Far from the village of the Thai Theravadamönches Phramaha Boonthin Taosiri is built on a large Buddhist temple since 2005 on the initiative; a Buddha statue was built in 2007.